#with

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. ↗

— Confucius

#depends #failure #preparation #previous #such

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ↗

— Confucius

#diamond #flaw #pebble #than #without

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#here #i #i am #impossible #knowing

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes. ↗

— Boris Vallejo

#bored #clothes #costumes #doing #enjoy

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#danger #glory #without

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#danger #glory #our #triumph #without

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another. ↗

— Jon Corzine

#another #beings #care #convention #deeds

It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#bought #dollars #easy #fighter #having

There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#concern #data #misleading #particular #perspective

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#democracies #deserving #differences #different #form